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Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.

While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he’s gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.

Filled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences.

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4 março 2014
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“This is easily one of the essential books every business leader should read if they’re looking for proven and honest management advice.” -- --Entrepreneur's 25 Amazing Business Books from 2014

“There is more than enough substance in Mr. Horowitz’s impressive tome to turn it into a leadership classic.” -- The Economist

“More than any other business book released this year, “Hard Things” gives an insider’s perspective on what it’s like to lead and scale a startup.” -- --Business Insider's Best Business Books of 2014

“The most valuable book on startup management hands down” -- PandoDaily --Este texto se refere à edição hardcover.

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A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.

In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, buying, managing, and investing in technology companies to offer essential advice and practical wisdom for navigating the toughest problems business schools don't cover. His blog has garnered a devoted following of millions of readers who have come to rely on him to help them run their businesses. A lifelong rap fan, Horowitz amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs and tells it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, from cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.

His advice is grounded in anecdotes from his own hard-earned rise--from cofounding the early cloud service provider Loudcloud to building the phenomenally successful Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, both with fellow tech superstar Marc Andreessen (inventor of Mosaic, the Internet's first popular Web browser). This is no polished victory lap; he analyzes issues with no easy answers through his trials, including

demoting (or firing) a loyal friend;
whether you should incorporate titles and promotions, and how to handle them;
if it's OK to hire people from your friend's company;
how to manage your own psychology, while the whole company is relying on you;
what to do when smart people are bad employees;
why Andreessen Horowitz prefers founder CEOs, and how to become one;
whether you should sell your company, and how to do it.

Filled with Horowitz's trademark humor and straight talk, and drawing from his personal and often humbling experiences, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures.

--The Economist --Este texto se refere à uma edição alternativa kindle_edition

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Ben Horowitz is the cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading technology companies. The firm's investments include Airbnb, GitHub, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. Previously he was cofounder and CEO of Opsware, formerly Loudcloud, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Horowitz writes about his experiences and insights from his career as a computer science student, software engineer, cofounder, CEO, and investor in a blog that is read by nearly ten million people. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Fortune, the Economist, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among others. Horowitz lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Felicia.

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A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.

His advice is grounded in anecdotes from his own hard-earned rise—from cofounding the early cloud service provider Loudcloud to building the phenomenally successful Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, both with fellow tech superstar Marc Andreessen (inventor of Mosaic, the Internet's first popular Web browser). This is no polished victory lap; he analyzes issues with no easy answers through his trials, including

demoting (or firing) a loyal friend;
whether you should incorporate titles and promotions, and how to handle them;
if it's OK to hire people from your friend's company;
how to manage your own psychology, while the whole company is relying on you;
what to do when smart people are bad employees;
why Andreessen Horowitz prefers founder CEOs, and how to become one;
whether you should sell your company, and how to do it.

--Este texto se refere à uma edição alternativa kindle_edition

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ASIN : B00DQ845EA
Editora : Harper Business (4 março 2014)
Idioma : Inglês
Tamanho do arquivo : 1332 KB
Leitura de texto : Habilitado
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Dicas de vocabulário : Habilitado
Número de páginas : 308 páginas

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Leandro Lima

Excelente

Avaliado no Brasil em 29 de agosto de 2014

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Existem vários livros por aí que explicam como fazer boa gestão, como empreender com sucesso ou como eliminar o risco em empreendimentos intrinsecamente arriscados. Já vi alguns reviews do The Hard Thing About Hard Things em que os leitores se decepcionaram por este não se um deles.

Para mim, a qualidade dele é exatamente essa. É um livro que compartilha a vivência do Ben diante dos problemas que ele viveu ao longo de seus vários empreendimentos, pontuado com as lições que ele tirou desses momentos. Ler o livro é como sentar-se ao lado de alguém que tem experiências únicas de vida e ouvir a pessoa contar sobre como foi seu caminho, que dificuldades teve, como lidou com eles e o que aprendeu com isso.

Quem começar a ler esse livro buscando um how-to, vai desistir depois de 10 páginas. Já para aqueles que gostam de ouvir e aprender com a experiência de outras pessoas, é um prato cheio.

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Mauricio de Andrade

Livro excelente para empreendedores de tecnologia

Avaliado no Brasil em 25 de agosto de 2020

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Livro rápido e excelente das reflexões de ex CEO de empresa de técnologia e um dos venture capitalist de mais relevância atualmente, liçoes excelentes da pratica de um CEO que começou como start-up, passou por scale-up, abriu capital e realizou a venda da empresa.

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Andre Kano

Great inputs. No summary.

Avaliado no Brasil em 13 de agosto de 2017

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I just had a great time with this book. Horowitz shares a lot of insights from his successful career as a CEO and as a tech business entrepreneur. What I think the book lacks is a better summary of all his inputs. If you want to keep track of them like me then you will have to create you own way to take notes and make it better reachable when you eventually want to get back to an specific idea from the book.

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Pedro Oliveira

good reading .....

Avaliado no Brasil em 15 de fevereiro de 2020

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I liked the description of his business experiences. However, at certain points, the Author moves to the business teaching mode, providing too many steps to follow.

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Yuri D.

Full of practical knowledge

Avaliado no Brasil em 23 de janeiro de 2021

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This book is absolute gold. The author is extremely candid and was able to organize ywars of practical knowledge in an accessible and engaging format. Highly recommend for any current or aspiring tech CEO or leader.

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Gabriel Esteca

Read this book. Now.

Avaliado no Brasil em 8 de fevereiro de 2016

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Great book. With a "no frills" approach to the challenges faced by CEOs and packed with excellent war stories, this book is an absolute must read for real entrepreneurs (not the stage type, but the hard working, low profile type).
All we can do besides devouring every page is to thank Ben for writing this when he didn't have to, and being so open to the fears, mistakes and lessons in his career.

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Brandao

Grandes Lições

Avaliado no Brasil em 12 de outubro de 2019

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Em uma época em que todo mundo é CEO, ou influencer, é interessante entender experiências reais da indústria "gente grande".

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ARTHUR C C D FHO

Uma verdadeira bíblia para empreendedores

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Excelente livro, com historias e dicas praticas de como agir nos momentos mais difíceis para qualquer empreendedor.

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Sam Gerrans

Unreadable

Avaliado no Reino Unido em 7 de julho de 2019

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I'll tell you now: I did not finish this book. I was so put off by what I did read of it, I dropped it in the trash next to the bench I was sitting on in the park and went home.

So perhaps it has some redeeming features, but I'm quite happy not knowing what they are.

The book seems to be a self-congratulatory lap of honour in which the author demonstrates that he is the most non-racist, inclusivistic, non-judgmental person who has ever lived. He bludgeons us through the taxonomies of his various sets of friends, almost all of whom have some claim or other to minorityship which he just *has* to mention, whilst systematically pick-axing his prose to death with the Cultural Marxist "she" when what he means is "he" (or – if you must – "they"). It's just irritating.

I have never met this man. But I have met enough people like him to know that I don't want to hear any more of what he has to say about himself.

I'm happy for him that he manages to fire his friends *and* sleep well at night. I'm happy for him that he loves himself so much he just had to write an entire book about what a fabulous fellow he is. The problem is that I simply don't feel that anyone who is as eager as he is to cram his credentials of conventionality down my throat by endorsing every single point of what happens to be Politically Correct this week can genuinely have any balls.

Ergo, he isn't a leader.

Ergo, this isn't what it claims to be: a book about leadership.

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Kilt_monster

It's alright, but there are better books, and potentially more relevant ones for you

Avaliado no Reino Unido em 14 de julho de 2018

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I heard this book raved about and thought I'd give it a go. It's written by someone who achieved much in silicon valley and is interesting, but I found in the way a museum plaque is interesting - you read it, think 'mm that's interesting' but then move on, because it doesn't really change you. I just want to highlight why I'm not raving about it.

1 - Almost all the advice provided here is for C-Suite, or perhaps exclusively CEO. Corporate boardroom, shareholders, directors bonuses, right person for the right job... I found it fascinating to read about things like the personality qualities the author looks for or assumes in a CEO fit, but I feel for a lot of people this information will simply not be applicable to their day to day. Certainly there wasn't much I could draw into my day to day.

2- The books referred to throughout by the author, by the likes of Andy Grove and Peter Thiel, are in my opinion far more useful - more game-changing insights

Maybe it's just because I'm not a C-suite director or a business founder that I can't appreciate the value of the advice... certainly I appreciate the honesty of the author and their willingness to call out what they see as corporate BS, but I found myself putting it down at 50%, 70%, 80%, picking up later, forging on, and still not feeling I was getting much from the read.

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Alok Kejriwal

This book is Salvation

Avaliado na Índia em 24 de fevereiro de 2019

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The Hard Thing about Hard Things is pure SALVATION.

Written by the well known Ben Horowitz (VC of FB, Airbnb, Pinterest, Twitter), this is Ben's narration as a HARDCORE entrepreneur.

What I LOVE about the book:

- There is no black or white in the world of startup entrepreneurship. It's always a shade of grey.

- The roller coaster ride of an entrepreneur & how SIMILAR it feels to all our journeys. This book is a GREAT leveller 🙂

- Profanity is a mindset. Ben narrates how he handles it (also mentioning its purpose)

- Co-Founder relationship management!

- The constant dread of shutting down / going bankrupt and how the single pointed agenda of SURVIVING pulled Ben and his Company through until stardom.

- When to use statistics and when to use calculus 🙂

- The incredible story of Go. (second time I read this)

- The CHALLENGES of 'getting big Co execs into small Cos"!

- NEVER 'overcompensating' employees

Immortal quotes:

"There were plenty of companies in the '90s that had launch parties but not landing parties" 🙂

"Play long enough ... so that you might get lucky"

MUST READ (once a year)

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Peace to all those engaged in struggle to fulfill their dreams

Avaliado na Índia em 4 de novembro de 2018

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Going through my own struggle to fulfill my dreams, I just picked up the book and read it. And as the author says hard things are hard, because there are no easy answers or recipes. It is an easy read, though can get boring in places, especially given it is also a management book. However, the author's stewardship Opsware is fascinating, its ups and downs, re-inventing itself, fighting and eventually selling it. For me the following are the important lessons:

1. I recently met an ex-colleague, whose founded and runs a business now valued over a couple of billion dollars. He like the author said that we just kept on going through tough times. As Winston Churchill also said, when in hell keep going. And as the author says, if you play long enough, you may get lucky.
2. Focus on exploiting your strengths more than in ensuring that there are no weaknesses
3. Sometimes the things that you are not doing should be the things that you should be doing.
4. Looking at worlds from different prisms, helps separate facts from perception or shall we say fiction.
5. In war time, just play to survive, kill and win i.e., know what needs to be done and focus on getting it done. Alignment of all with the strategy and tactics is very important.
6. If you are a thinker, get people who can get things done. My father used to say that most executive often knew how to get things done, however if they also knew what to do, then they would be more effective.
7. In business if you need to find an answer, you got to find it irrespective of odds of finding it.
8. Importance of training your people and integrating them. As i was old over a quarter of a century ago in an interview, you need to train your staff from day one.

There are of course other lessons too, like when should you sell your company, how should organisation culture be deigned, how should a founder deal with simple things like title or avoid the organisation becoming political, etc. I am sure, depending on where you are and what your challenges are, you will have a different take.

A good book to read for entreprenuers, for people charting their own courses. I give it my highest recommendation.

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Ajay

A brief rundown on how to deal with the hard things

Avaliado no Reino Unido em 11 de agosto de 2016

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The hard thing about hard things deals with the trials that Ben Horowitz encountered during his career as founder CEO to VC at Andreessen Horowitz. The book gives practical advice on how to grow a company, find the right executives, and deal with the hard decisions along the way.

The first half of the book mainly covers Horowitz's back story and it takes a while for anything of real value to be mentioned. By the halfway mark though the book offers plenty of bookmark-worthy snippets of advice which should be relevant to anyone who is looking to develop a career in leadership.

It's very likely I will be referring to this book again in the future.

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